Drawn away from the city, by the dissembled flight of the Israelites. As at other times; with the same kind, though not with the same degree of success. Gibeah in the field; so called, to difference it from this Gibeah, which was upon a hill; wherefore they are constantly said to ascend or go up against it, as Judges 20:23,30. See Joshua 18:24,28.
TO THE HOUSE OF GOD - “To Bethel,” as in the margin. On “Gibeah in the field,” see Joshua 18:24 note....
CHAPTER 20 THE HORRIBLE WAR _ 1. The Levite's story (Judges 20:1)_ 2. The uprising (Judges 20:8) 3. The slaying of the Israelites (Judges 20:12) 4. Benjamin exterminated except six hundred men ...
JUDGES 20. THE OUTRAGE AVENGED.The congregation (LXX Synagô gç) is a post-exilic term. The words as one man suggest a unity of action such as was not secured till long after the time of the Judges. Th...
THE HOUSE OF GOD. Beth-el Here it denotes Beth-el. One of the three cities mentioned....
The opening sentence follows the pattern of Judges 20:21_; Judges 20:25_. The remainder of the _v._raises difficulties; it is partly repeated in Judges 20:39; the pretence of flight does not come prop...
_The Defeat of the Benjamites Judges 20:24-48_ 24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day, 25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second...
_AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT UP AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN ON THE THIRD DAY, AND PUT THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AGAINST GIBEAH, AS AT OTHER TIMES._ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE SLAUGHTER OF THE BENJAMITES The Levite recounts his wrongs to a full assemblage of the tribes, who decree punishment upon Benjamin. Their first two attacks are unsuccessful, but the third results...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 20 V1 Then all the *Israelites from Dan to Beersheba came to meet together. They also came from the area called Gilead. They all met at Mizpah, wher...
TO SMITE OF THE PEOPLE, AND KILL. — Rather, _to smite the wounded or beaten of the people._ It means, apparently, that when some of the Israelites had been wounded with slings, the Benjamites began to...
וַ יֵּצְא֤וּ בְנֵֽי ־בִנְיָמִן֙ לִ קְרַ֣את הָ
Judges 20:1; Judges 21:1 FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE Judges 19:1; Judges 20:1;...
The action of the Levite served its purpose. The nation was stirred momentarily to its center. A great moral passion flamed out. Underneath all the degeneracy was a true stratum of religious convictio...
The other tribes called upon Benjamin to release to them the wicked men that they might be put to death in accord with the law (Deuteronomy 22:22). By refusing to release them, the rest of the tribe o...
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were (o) drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one g...
_To Gabaa, from some other city. (Haydock) --- This body of men consisted of 10,000, who were designed to draw off the Benjamites from the city into the midst of the forces of Israel, at Baalthamar; w...
Here we see that through the whole the victory was not doubtful. The Lord hereby taught Israel, who perhaps vaunted more upon the strength of their numbers, compared to Benjamin and Gibeah, than simpl...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...
AND THE CHILDREN OF BENJAMIN WENT OUT AGAINST THE PEOPLE,.... Sallied out of Gibeah upon them, where they had put themselves in array against them: AND WERE DRAWN AWAY FROM THE CITY; the Israelites r...
And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, [and] were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, [and] kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth...
1 The Leuite in a generall assembly declareth his wrong. 8 The decree of the assembly. 12 The Beniamites being cited, make head against the Israelites. 18 The Israelites in two battels loose fourty...
And the children of Benjamin, in total ignorance of the ambush in their rear, WENT OUT AGAINST THE PEOPLE, AND WERE DRAWN AWAY, torn away, severed, FROM THE CITY; AND THEY BEGAN TO SMITE OF THE PEOPLE...
THE BENJAMITES DEFEATED AND ALMOST EXTERMINATED...
TO SMITE OF THE PEOPLE, AND KILL, AS AT OTHER TIMES: _ Heb._ to smite of the people wounded as at, etc. THE HOUSE OF GOD: Or, Bethel...
Judges 20:31 children H1121 Benjamin H1144 out H3318 (H8799) against H7125 (H8800) people H5971 away H5423 ...
‘ And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city. And they began to smite and to kill some of the people as at other times, in the high ways, of which one...
CONTENTS: Civil war in which the Benjamites are punished. CHARACTERS: God, a Levite, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: We cannot expect the presence of God with us in our enterprises unless we seek it by humblin...
Judges 20:11. _All the men of Israel were knit together._ Why had they not assembled against Micah and his chapel of gods? Then this and other evils might have been prevented. This was a just and nece...
_The men of Israel turned again upon the children of BenJamin._ FROM JUSTICE TO WILD REVENGE It may be asked how, while polygamy was practised among the Israelites, the sin of Gibeah could rouse such...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 20:1 Gibeah was a Benjaminite city, and so an assembly of all Israel came together at Mizpah to take action against Benjamin (vv. Judges 20:1). The Benjaminites, who apparently w...
THE CRY FOR VENGEANCE (Judges 20:1.) _HOMILETICS_ 1. _This cry was universal_ (Judges 20:1). “From Dan to Beershebah, with Gilead.” There was not a dissentient voice. 2. _They were in earnest_ (Ju...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 20:18 THE HOUSE OF GOD. In this rendering the A.V. follows the Vulgate, which has _in domum Dei, hoc est, in Silo. _But the Septuagint has Βαιθὴλ, and all the ancient authorities,...
Now it had what he hoped it would have. It had a shock effect upon the tribes. They were horrified to get part of a torso, a leg, an arm, a head and they gathered together and this man told them the e...
Isaiah 10:29; Joshua 7:5; Joshua 8:14; Judges 19:13; Judges 19:14...